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What they are doing should be criminal4th of July day sign posting5 Min Forecast Gold Facebook Apple5* book 1984 big brother5* book Mises the central bank5* book The purpose for which money was created is 10*!not charging the public for mistakes of banks QE that gets to people5* book chart that says it all5* book could be no more effective check against the abuse of money by the government than if people were free to refuse any money they distrusted and to prefer money in which they had confidence5* cartoon5* cartoon terrorism5* cartoon; social security5* construction of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ..5* the 'Great Enigma': A government empowered to do good will be corrupted by that power &amp; people will pay for given that power Constitution tried to keep that power with the people5* theme point5*; see reference page5*; unlimited money to fight criticism5*?6:44-11:50 exponential functionAdam GopnikAdam PosenAlan NewmanAlan WattAlexander HamiltonAllan MeltzerAmerican Educational SystemAmerican Enterprise InstituteAmerican Monetary 'System' (which violates the U.S. Constitution)Americans are being prepared .. by claiming it was bad for us.Amory LovinsAndrew LoAndrew NapolitanoAndy XieAnglo Irish BankAnonymousAnthony BelchambersAnthony SuttonAristotleArnaud J MehlArt CashinArt Cashing Money Supply is PlummetingAutismBCA Research on Japan Path to Debt MonetizationBOOK GREAT OVERVIEWBOTH OBAMA &amp; BUSH SUPPORTED HAVING THE $$ CONTROLLED BY THE FEDERAL RESERVE... WHY?Baba ShivBank IF they want the money to do anything.Bank Risks Sheila Bair financial regulationBarney FrankBeeler cartoonBeijing New Century Research InstituteBelgiumBenson cartoonBently UniversityBill BonnerBill GatesBill JoyBill LappBillionaire Investor Wilbur Ross on hedging rising interest ratesBlackstoneBob DollBob HoyeBob MoriartyBok debt cartoonBok social security cartoonBok; fiscal; cartoonBoston UniversityBrace For BlackoutsBruce BerkowitzBruce KrastingBud ConradBukovskyByron KingC-SPANCBSCFACPMCarneyCentral Bank Liquidity Flows Like Water Around The World Without Being Well Controlledperpetual instability that gradually impoverishes every sector other than global capital.Central Bankers MonsterCharles ColsonCharles SchwabCharlie RoseCheck PalahniukChina Headed For Crash In 6 Months?China Loan Practices GraphicChina Loan Practices and Shadow Banking SystemChina housing bubbleChina's Financial BindChomskyChris CiovaccoChris EcclestoneChris NelderCliff's Plea: Please take some time to stop &amp; thinkClintonCobden CentreColombiaCommunications is Only Tool LeftCongressConsuelo MackCraig AlexanderCyprusDCBDamon VickersDan FussDan HenningerDan LoebDavid GreenbergDavid KorowiczDavid MaloneDavid NicoskiDebate on Capitalsm from our archivesDee WooDemocrats &amp; Republicans agreed to delegate to the Federal ReserveDent on Tapering Effects and MarketsDesmond LachmanDeutsche BankDiane SawyerDiminishing Effects of QEDobden CentreDon Coxe InterviewDoug HagmannDoug KassDoug NolandDr. Marc Faber articleDr. Marc Faber: America's Affluenza Leading To Economic Slowdown?DuncanDylan GriceEPSEVERY ECONOMIC PROBLEM REQUIRES A HEAVIER DOSE OF THE ONLY DRUG ('MONEY' CREATION) THAT CENTRAL BANKS CONTROL &amp; PRESCRIBEEamon JaversEconomists DevalueEd ClarkEd YardeniEdward KaneEgan-JonesEgypt and wheatEidesis CapitalEl-ErianElizabeth GilbertEllen BrownEllis MartinEric RosengrenEric Sprott on Sprott's ThoughtsEtienne BordeleauEuro Pacific CapitalEuro Zone CrisisExxonMobilEzra PoundFDRFaber on Next Stage of CrisisFarageFed Throwing Hand GrenadesFederal Reserve interventionFederal Reserve track record of economic projectionsFederal Reserve's Dangerous Exit StrategyFelix SalmonFixed IncomeForbes father on 1929 stock market crashForeign AffairsForward Guidance? – Nonsense! Central bankers have no choice.Frank GiustraFrank Holmes Stay the CourseFriedrich SellFrontline on Declining Middle Class in AmericaGeorge Bernard ShawGeorge KarahaliosGeorge Mason UniversityGeorge Soros recommended readingGeorge W. BushGerald FordGerald MinackGermany on Chinese Currency World Reserve CurrencyGhanaGlass-Steagal was overthrown with Clinton’s help. That didn’t help ‘liberal’ causes. It hurt the lower &amp; middle classesall while he garnered votes from the very 'lambsGodfrey BloomGordon LongGovernments Using Financial Repression To Address Debt ChallengesGraham FisherGreenhornGreg HunterGretchen MorgensonHBOHal MasonHarper's MagazineHarry BrowneHathaway on Physical Paper SpreadHayek quote babeHenry PaulsonHerman CainHindeHollandeHow The Federal Reserve Is Connected To BeerHow badly do the major banks have to use & abuse the American people before the people will lose their TRUST?Howard MarksHoward SternHugo Salinas PriceHungaryHussmanHydraulic FracturingINDEPENDENCE DAY AMERICA! Remember the rallying cry of the American War of Independence? "No Taxation Without Representation"INET Series DEBT episode 2: How bubbles growINET series of Debt the Good the Bad the Ugly part 3INET series of Debt the Good the Bad the Ugly part 4INET video series part 1 on What is Money?IPOISSUED & DISTRIBUTED IN A MANNER THAT HE SAID SHOULD NEVER BE ALLOWEDImportant Wealth Management Concept RiskIndependenceIndonesiaInstitutional AdvisorsInstitutions going into cash?Irving FisherIrving KahnIsraelIt Appears That Many Of The Controlling Shareholders Were Europeans.It is a shame that no 'Free Marketeers' have held influential positions for decades.Ivan OranskyJFKJK RowlingJP Morgan Bullish On CommoditiesJames BuchanJames MadisonJames MillerJames TobinJamie GalbraithJamil BazJared DiamondJean Francois TardifJean-Marie EveillardJeff MadrickJeff RowbergJeff Saut latest letterJeffrey BrownJeffrey FrankelJeremy GrayJim CramerJo WeisenthalJoe BidenJoel SalatinJohn AuthersJohn Williams warningJohn WoodsJon CorzineJoseph SalernoJulian RobertsonKarl BrunnerKirk SorensenKondratieff Wave CycleKoreaKyle Bass - China Is In Big TroubleKyle Bass Latest Letter July 2013Lance RobertsLatin AmericaLaurence KotlikoffLee MunsonLi Ka-shinLivia ChituLou DobbsLouis McFaddenLynchMADManufacturingMarc Faber quote on central bank exit and money printingMargaret ThatcherMark ThorntonMarket MaelstromMarshall AuetbackMartin Armstrong on GoldMartin HitchisonMarty WhitmanMarxismMatterhorn Asset ManagementMatthew TuttleMauldin Outside the BoxMax Keiser with Jim Rogers on Rockstar Central BankersMencef CheikhrouhouMerrill LynchMervyn KingMichael HudsonMichael McDonoughMichael SteinhardtMichard MilneMike MayoMiller TabakMineralsMinewebMisconceptions about where Bernanke's Fed money explosion wentMitch DanielsMohammed YumusMoncktonMoneyGameMort ZuckermanMurray Rothbard had a great way with words! book economics w/ money control politics mechanicsMyanmarNASANBCNNancy PelosiNationalization Of Everything 5*New American FoundationNick HanauerNielsenNight WatchmanNoam Chomsky quoteNomiNorth AmericaNorwayNot The SolutionNuclearOECDOOB Honorable World LeadersOOB copiersOaktreeOil DrumOn China: Engineers BuildOur monetary system is perfect for a MAD world.PBoCPOWER CORRUPTS.Anchoring money production to gold was a constitutional 'chain' control of interest rates from 'the invisible hand' of a free market & giving that control to a 'visible hand'PapandeouPaul FarrellPaul GrignonPaul KedroskyPaul KennedyPaul Tudor JonesPaul Tudor Jonews InsightsPedro SchwartzPeter MoriciPeter TchirPeter ThielPrime InterestQB Asset ManagementRBCRTRaoul PalRcubeRep Dem divide & conquerRicardianRichard BernsteinRichard Duncan on Capitalism Creditism Debate from archivesRichard GrassoRickards* Says: Americans Are The Last To Understand That Banks Are An Arm Of State PowerRob ArnottRob McEwenRobert FitzwilsonRobert HertzelRobert JohnsonRobert LenznerRobert ReichRobert ZoelickRoger BootleRonald StoeferleRoosevelt InstituteRosenberg - 5 signs on QE's Diminishing ReturnsRubinoRussel NapierRussia & China Moving Towards Austrian School Economics?SCBSantelli Uncovers 'Helicopter Ben'Santelli and Biderman on the money printing "drug addiction"Scott SumnerSeeking AlphaSergei KaraganovSergei MavrodiSesame StreetShadow Open Market CommitteeSheila BairSholom gold consensusSimon LackSimon NixonSkidelskySober LookSouth KoreaSovereign ManSpaceSprott on Gold StocksStanford UniversitySteen JakobsenSteve KroftSteve SavilleSteve WynnSteven RattnerStockman on economy and marketsStuart GrahamSubcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and TechnologySun MicrosystemsSwedenTARGET2TD BankTED special on a tale of 2 political systemsThe 'face' on the 'throne' has changedThe Big PictureThe Black SwanThe Coming China CrisisThe DiplomatThe Fed's 'Victory' Over The Chaos Of 2008? It Came By Flooding The World With Untold Trillions Of Newly Created 'Money' It Was A Pyrrhic Victory. The Stage Is Set For The ImplosionThe Great Destroyer of Honest Money? ..WARThe New Bailout Plan - cartoon CyprusThe money controls the government & the government controls the people. The President & the Congress serve CitiThe money controls the government & the government controls the people. The President & the Congress serve IF they want the money to do anything.Theme Point: CENTRAL PLANNING CREATES PROFIT OPPORTUNITIES (schemes) FOR THOSE WHO ARE PRIVILEGED ENOUGH TO BE 'CONNECTED'. (just a different way of saying POWER CORRUPTTheme Point: Pensions Are An Important Part Of The Monetary System's Confidence Game. Be prepared to find out you've been connedThis Time Is DifferentThomas FrankThomas FriedmanThomas HuggerThoriumThose who write the laws are the servants to those hold the power to issue the money. power is privately owned & controlled wealthy 'families' who are above the law & above the government.Tim Price latest Federal Reserve losing controlTim RyanTime MagazineTom MurphyTony RobbinsTorontoTransportTyranny of the The Majority bookU.S. Housing MarketU.S. mostUnited NationsUniversity of CaliforniaUniversity of ZurichVOXValcambiVandana ShivaVanderbiltVietnamVince FarrellVladimir LeninVladimir PutinWalter BlockWalter MurphyWe live in a 'Catch-22']Welfare For Federal Reserve Families &amp; Friends That Is Killing UsWell FargoWharton SchoolWhat kind of people control the United States $? (&amp; why? It is unconstitutional).]When Tapering?When we control any of the major banksWhere is the U.S. Recovery?Which It Must Some Day .." Those Who Profited Most From The Financial Scheme That Constantly Borrowed From The Future Will Be Resting Very ComfortablyWilliam BlackWorld BankWould You Give These Men (&amp; Their Partners) A 'Monopoly' To Control YOUR Country's Money?Wynn ResortsYraZeitgeistZimbabwea store of wealth and a unit of account. But instead Money has become a political tool.abyssalmost destroyed AIG?and chronic military overreach cannot compete against the now capitalistand that goes for commoditiesaristocracyBUT It is our main theme to get everyone to understand how foolish it is to have privately controlled creation & distribution of the public's money.bailinbanksmbarrierboWhat the central banks did at that timebooBank of North Dakota is NOT designed to model itself on the privately controlled Bank of Englandkbook If all that newly created money had gone to good purposesbook The claim that money printing is for the economy is bogus. It is for the exclusive benefit of the banks that dominate the Federal Reserve System & the governmentbook The cure cannot be the same as the disease."book "Central Banks will be exposed for the fraud they have committed on the people" (woooo).book "One is concerned with the well-being of the nation's people. The other is concerned with the well-being of the nation's banks."book "Who Profits From This Economic System You Brought Me Into?"book 'ammunition' that has been developed & tried so far.]book ('Ponzi-scheme' economicsbook 2 reminders that the Federal Reserve & its news media cheerleading pundits led the world over a cliff in 2008 ..book 400 million years to pay off debtbook 5* CONTROLbook 5* Essential Message Inside A 'Sales Piece' David Stockman*book 5* Everyone wants to believe that we are betterbook 5* FOR THOSE WHO ARE JUST STARTING TO UNDERSTAND HOW BAD THE MONETARY SYSTEM IS.book 5* Merry Christmas! Peace on Earth...book 5* The (deep in debt) Developed World Is Going For More Government & More Central Planning & More Control Of The People .. While Going Against Free Market Capitalismbook 5* The Crash Course Peak Cheap Oilbook 5* cartoonbook 5* central banks act as one wealth transfer serfs aristocratsbook 5* derivative time bombbook 5* graphics (attach to videothat describes owners of fedbook 5* gvt debt as safe whole foundation of fin system but they have to behavebook 5* leveraging controlbook 5* the great counter intuitive enigmabook 5*Robert Wenzel's Speech at the NY Federal Reserve Jeff Rowberg makes an audio podcast of Wenzel's speechbook ?book Alan Greenspan gold is a currencybook Attorney General Eric Schneiderman the 'power structure'. His 'settlement' with arsonist to spend a few weekends helping 'Habitat For Humanity'.book BUT A LOT OF THINGS ARE BEING DONE WRONGbook Bottom 95% of Americans Are Borrowing To Sustain Their Standard of Living 1:20 2:30book Can Americans understand that Japan's Central Bank & Government are EXPLOITING its people? Does seeing the EXPLOITATION therebook China Had Some Reason To Feel Upset .. After Working For Years To Accumulate & Save Trillions Of $ The FED Then Simply Printed Trillions More For Its Own Accountbook Dali scambook Dr. Ron Paul* ... 5* He says it as clearly &amp; succinctly as it can be.book ESSENTIAL QUESTION free markets OR Central Bank?book Earlier Version Of The U.S. Central Bank Lost Its Charterbook FED UP seems to believebook Faith in Fiat Currencies Will Lead To Hellish Resultsbook Federal Reserve & other central banks are counting on the general public to never 'get' all the that are being done. Nomi Prins* understands the 'con' part of the great confidence gamebook Financial Repression is a harmless sounding euphemism for a cruel government sponsored 'Reverse Robin Hood' policy:book Frederick Townsend Martin was wrong? Do you think those who considered themselves 'owners' of Americabook Godfatherbook IF rates are allowed to risecontrol the moneybook It became an economy of people who lent money to people so they could buy things they didn’t need with money they didn’t havebook It fits with our major theme point by getting to some of the details of the corruption that develops within a system where the Constitution's 'checks & balances have been removedbook Keynesian Endpoint? Crystal Clear When You Look At Japan’s Monetary Madness 'looney' is not the right word IF it is a sinisterbook Larry Summersbook Lenin Was Right! The Best Way To Destroy The Economy Is .. DEBAUCH the CURRENCYbook MONEY DOES NOT MEASURE VALUE simple value will be distorted by the scheme that issues distributes moneybook Mainstream Media Purposely Misleading Us? Are They Inept? or are outside information sources wrong?book NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. Is there anyone anbook Not Giving That Power To Central Planners & Central Banks If We Called 'Austrian Economists' Free Marketeers Would America Be Willing To Return To Free Markets?book PROPAGANDA MANAGEMENT IF YOU WANT A GOLD STANDARD? YOU ARE ON THE SAME SIDE AS THE TERRORISTS!book Saving the major banks that control the Federal Reserve was a necessity? That is the question we keep trying to get Americans to consider!book Somebody Needs To Be 'Repressed' In Order To Save The System.book Subsidizing government spending & bank business practices propagates bastard behavior just like subsidizing unwed motherhood propagates more unwed motherhood.book TARP WAS NOT REPAID WITH A PROFIT" "It was simply perpetuated and morphed into a new form of destructive state subvention and mal-investment." - David Stockmanbook THE NATION'S CURRENCY SHOULD BELONG TO THE NATION & ITS PEOPLE.book THE SOURCE OF THE 'INCOMPREHENSIBLE' DYSFUNCTION IS IN THE STRUCTURE OF OUR 'SYSTEM' OF MONEY. THE STRUCTURE OF OUR MONETARY 'SYSTEM'book The Banks Were Saved With Trillions of $$$ of Newly Created Cash [that we say should have gone to charity] NOTHING WAS DONE TO CHANGE THE STRUCTURE!book The Principle of Limited Government does not have the right to take money away to give it (as a favor)supposed to belong to the peoplebook The Words You Use & The Way You Use Them Can Lead The Right Way Or The Wrong Waybook The geniuses that made sure there was no regulation on derivatives have set the world up for an extortion.book WEALTH AS OPPOSED TO MONEY .. OUR MODERN DAY FIAT MONEY DOES NOT REPRESENT A TANGIBLE MEASURE OF WEALTH. THOSE WHO THINK IT DOES ARE THE CONNED IN 'THE GREAT CONFIDENCE GAME'book We Are in a 'Zugzwang' Chess Situation 5* DO NOT MISS THIS ONE. THAD BEVERSDORF HAS MADE IT ABOUT AS CLEAR & SIMPLE AS WE CAN FINDbook When Congress granted a monopoly contractbook When are the world's quack economists going to accept that it's central banking and the fiat money shit it issues that is killing our world?"book Why Is Government Involved In Telling People What To Think? Isn't It Supposed To Be The Other Way Around?book Why does the Federal Reserve use the image of ALEXANDER HAMILTON on today's money?book [Could it be that it was never really about fixing the economybook andrew jacksonbook banker godfatherbook banking is deceptive at it core. Words can work to explain or misleadbook charts key points flash pointsbook control of other humans wouldn't be if there weren't people in controlbook control ones we keep railing against .. whoever they are seek oversight of wealth on earth &amp; its resources. It doesn't seem like earthly money &amp; power are worthy goals perspective.book deposit MORONbook discussion on limiting gvtbook duality of spirit good & badbook entropy free vs managed marketbook essntial understanding "No increase in the welfare of the members of a society can result from the availability of an additional quantity of money."book example of where control goesbook explanationbook false flag operation who would do it?book ffbook financial repressionbook future was screwed by banks & gvt now by corporationsbook fuzzy numbers 5*book goofball economics good advisers vs goofballsbook government cannot produce wisebook graphicbook graphic "I Am My Own Central Banker"book graphic disjointed central banks ought to lose their monopoly money printing privileges."book graphic evidence that is being ignored re keynes monetarismbook graphic titlebook if the American people are as willing as Munchkins to be controlled by the Wizard of Oz or as willing as the masses that accepted the control of 'Big Brother' in Orwell's 1984book inequalitybook it is what is perceived to be true that mattersbook kiss graphic incredible gig. Did 'Big Brother' have this much power in Orwell's '1984'?book mafia redistribution of wealthbook money partnership 5*book more at stake than stock market control of the world what is the limit?addnixonfedcontrolforelectionbook morons central banks can not eliminate the business cycle!Not Nice To Try To Fool 'The Economic Mother Nature'book must post on propagandabook not nice to fool Mother Nature .. It is not wise to try to ‘fool’ free markets. There will be unintended consequences .. & they might be disastrous.book not surprising when the people don't own the moneybook numbers matterbook obfuscating magniloquencebook orced to be smaller? The savvy &amp; intelligent people that control the major banksowning just as much of numerous smaller banks &amp; end up with as much control of Monetary Policy as ever.book owe the debt to ourselves? BSbook paragraph belowbook poppycock vs wisdombook power to leave to a small group of men and women with obvious conflicting interests to those of the American people. But Fed policies dobook priceless intrview LTCM Keynesian central planning economic more sustainable than a Communist central planning modelbook privately owned banks that control the U.S. $ are in a position to covertly assist China to accumulate REAL RESERVESbook process of taking from many to give to few FORCE not Freedombook real things for nothing property rightdbook realistic growing out of debtbook repatriationbook repression "I am afraid this economic systembook repression minute 25 -28book sensible policies by free debate or by top down forcebook serve your country who is your country serving?book simple explanation of transfer of wealth Martensonbook slippery slope away from capitalismbook slippery slope graphicbook social contractbook start at beginning Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.book such policiesbook system doomedbook the bank got to write it off &amp; save on taxes .. meaning the public got shafted again.book the conbook the way the world worksbook too bad every American doesn't have that freedom or share that power.book use our reserves more constructively by investing in development projectsbook vicious circle restrict FED powerbook war deception advisersbook war who pays who profits?book what fed says just isn't sobook while most wud try to strengthen economy we try to strengthen banks at expense of economy ..structure of incentives!book who's right good vs bad advisers how thick can the BS Be?book whole thingbook"'buy nowbook"Supervising and regulating banking institutions"? Major Federal Reserve partners participated in this scam on the general population for the profitbook"The Federal Reserve Exists For The Benefit of Wall Street" point where the American people realize how this system works &amp; remove the Federal Reservebook"When The System Breaks Downbook"manipulation of the money supply prevents interest rates from telling the truth" Central Banking Is The Problembook3book? 2 partiesbook? Is honesty really the best policy?book? aggressive empires with bloated bureaucraciesbook? constitutionbook?'you can't underestimate the insanity of the people who are printing this money'.book??book?Fiduciary failure is leading to a full financial foul-up that a free market would have prevented. Free Markets require individuals to practice fiduciary responsibility.book?Who Profits? - heavily indebted governments & the central banks that work as partners of the government against 'interest' of the people.book?You can’t find a free market left on the planetbook?theme point: '2+2=4'). We would bet that a fair & balanced analysis of derivatives 'tied to each barrel of oil'bookA 5* A FREE COUNTRY. IS LIKE COMEDY ENTERTAINMENT EXCEPT THAT IT IS REALITYbookAn Elite Class Mines Money From The Public TreasurybookAs brilliant as Elizabeth Warren is..bookDebasing the currency is a dishonest way to distribute the painDebasing the currency is a dishonest way to distribute the painbookDoes every reader understand thatbookMish Banks believe the central bank will always bail them out if they get in trouble .. And so far they have.bookMost indebted nations are willing to fleece the public to deal with government debt & bank insolvency. currencies into trashbookTHE FEDERAL RESERVE'S AUTHORITY TO DO AS IT HAS DONE?: WHO HAS THE POWER TO STOP IT?bookTHE PRINCIPLES FROM ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S GETTYSBURG ADDRESS HAVE BEEN DEMOLISHED BY MONEY WHICH IS STRUCTUREDbookThe competition is between those who control the financial system against those who don't. In factbookThe role of money is to be a medium of exchangebookThere is a simple way to figure out who is in charge. Look at results 'smoke &amp; mirrors' .. always remember: MONEY IS A CONFIDENCE GAME. results .. Who profits?bookWHETHER YOU SUPPORTED OBAMA OR BUSHbookWHY DO CENTRAL BANKERS BECOME HONEST AFTER THEY LEAVE OFFICE?bookWhy doesn't the world seem to get it? T Washington does not 'call the shots'. "The hand that gives is above the hand that takes". Why is this not clearly understood?bookcompetition is suppressed and government enriches those who are 'more equal than others'bookdownfall from 'World Reserve Currency' only Americans have been unaware. Now that it is becoming impossible to hide it any longerbookignore cautionsbooknot honestly 'economics' just like it is not honestly 'free markets' or honestly 'capitalism' or honest 'money'.booknotice that the world's central banks are working in a coordinated way.bookprivate financial system commits financial crimesgovernment. We don’t even have a free market system it.booksubjectboombuilding systemic changesbut groups which are politically well connectedbut it's not (because they control the moneybut not to studentsbut the 'power behind the throne' remains the samechartschina debt orgy explainedchinese ghost citisclandestinecoalcomplexity of the issue of 'sound' (honest) money. Paul Warburgconflict with your daily and long term interests.congress bribes public with public's moneyconsolidationcorruptioncreate money vs work for itcredit bubblecredit raters; financial warfarecreditismcurrencies and particularly goes for the bond markets.death by derivativesdebt is a dark stairwell theme pointdeflation boomdepositors pay for it .. or taxpayers pay for it.deterioratedictionary vs legal systemdiscdo is ensure a different distribution of wealth that increases leverage and favors not legitimate risk takersecdeconomic sanctionseducation racketdevelopment of inexpensive internet education will come to pass look for where the banks are loaning lots of money.engine of fraudequity marketseveryone did share in having it (control of the money). The great 'gig' was shared by everyone .. not anymore .. Congress sold the 'gig' to the highest bidder.]excerpt 5* bookfinancial repression Desperate People Will Do Desperate Things Those who control the U.S.$$$ would be insolventfoodfoolish the Federal Reserve) is smarter & better than free markets. The money that should be going into capital expenditures to build a better 'tomorrow' so foolish as to 'eat your own seed corn'for control of America's moneyfree markets find stability central banks are like casino operators no free market game is rigged for their benefitfree markets will NOT be allowed.] .free people get to know everything about those who get to know everythingglodgold; shaft; credits to the partners; the bill goes to the publicgov bank partnershipgraphgraphic for bookgraphic for book?graphic ignoregraphicHave we progressed since the days of debtor's prison? Today the bankrupt debtors control the monetary system. It is the conservative &amp; prudent savers that are repressed.greece swapshilarioushonest moneyhonest policy structural changeshow the system workshow the world worksif Mr. Sowell is correctin god we trust 5*interfering in the politics of others created costly problems? Why replace the Ukraine government with one that isn't elected? Who profits? Who paysis totally out of reach of the voterit is hard to imagine a more stupid &amp; dangerous monetary system than the one we have?incentives created rather than goals pursued.it was about fixing the banks?]jim rogers on malaysiaknee bone thighlarry summers dreadful adviserlegitimate; Nomi; 5*like the rest of Americalook at the past. Future problems rooted in pastmafiamajority seem to want a country that stands for very different principles than the American Revolutionmake it easier to see it here?mediabsmetaphormoenymoney printing essenceneither is as sustainable as a free market economic modelnever 'sold out' to the unconstitutional system of money that is ruining the economyDr. Paul says what needs to be understood by anyone who wants to understand how the 'money deal' worksnew dark agesnineno good reason that major banks can borrow money (that is created out of thin air) at a better 'deal' than the students who are our country's futurenot our message to say that extraordinary individual wealth is wrongnot to help the countryof having private control of the public's moneypay later' scheme there comes a point when the 'pay later' overwhelms the 'buy now'... and when that happens monetary policy is basically ineffective."policies are for their benefitpolitical parties are partnerspower vs strategyprivatizationprivatization; sub-contract; special interest grouppropaganda; issues vs distractionsprotestspurposely debasing the dollar for their own benefit. expense of the majority of American peoplepush all the issues into the future. They didn’t do anything to solve the basic problem.racketrant vicious circle if you are an American that wants the best for their country. It is the causal nexus of our economy's problemsreal changerecessioncreference Keynes Austrianreflexivityrelatively free-market Asia.repressreveals the true nature of our 'democracy' and our real mastersrule11Semantics! Pay attention to the words difference between a good & a bad outcome. We don't have CAPITALISM today!rules of good bankingsalonsave the worldsentimentserves owners not the countryshillingshort sellingshort term chartssmart little boysmarter & more progressive than people of the past.sold their power but that power was supposed to belong to the peoplespecifically the Fed and the Treasurysupercycleswapssystemic crimesystemic fraudtablethat POWERthat the Federal Reserve exists to help Americans .. NO! It exists to help the banks.the central banks are trying to accomplish a 'beautiful deleveragingthe corrupting process occurs even w/o the fedthe issue of trust with GLDthe math of it all; exponential growth vs linearthe nature of government has changedthe scam is almost too good to be true. We get to gamble with the public's money. If we losethe structure of our monetary system impacts how government money is spent AND how government money is spent impacts the structure of our monetary system.the very nature of money &amp; the Constitution was altered.the world didn't read it & understand market with no bottom government bonds. Paper promises are not worth the paper when there is no way to pay for the promises.theme of ours to get Americans to understand that far too many are bankrupt IF you were to do a proper accounting .. ie. distribute government debt among the people. It is worse than that.theme point of ours: Free Market Capitalism works for the benefit of the people. Central Planning works for the benefit of those who control the planningtheme point; understanding & trust don't go togetherthere would be a better chance of good resultsthey would have agreed that it is the monetary system that is unpatriotic. Today's structure for the monetary system works for the benefit of the fewthird worldthis & others explainthoroughly malleable in its construction and contentious in its application. GDP is instead a fuzzy reflection of the economytime alters acceptance & expectationstitanic battle inflation deflationto a private syndicate of 'investment bankers'to think that one party or the other is the correct choice is to be conned by the monetary confidence gametraitor or patriotunsustainable debt loadsvirtualization/dematerialization of the monetary system unleashed disproportionalvirtuous &amp; rational investmentswar a 'good' thingwar central planningwarning The one thing which is most likely to collapse? The currencywaterway too much consumptionwe're the greatestwhen it is really more like charity's opposite. 'Confessions of an Economic Hitman'which is being debauched by purposeful design.which is very unsatisfactory from both an economic & ethical perspectivewho they work for: the banks that own them .. not the people .. the people don't own them .. why is that so difficult for everyone at CNBC to accept & consider & explain to their viewerswho's goldwill remain with us for some time."written in 1928 by Edward Bernaysyet she doesn't seem to 'get it' when it comes to the structure of our money. Perhaps it is just too simple for intelligent people to believe.Cliff Küle's NotesCONSOLIDATING THE BEST PRESENTATIONS THAT EXPLAIN THE GREATEST CONFIDENCE GAME .. MONEY http://www.cliffkule.com/noreply@blogger.com (Richard CK61)Blogger33765125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066409829401008049.post-7339159096152473667Tue, 03 Mar 2015 21:59:00 +00002015-03-03T17:00:06.126-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://independentadvisorthayes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/bubble_1969.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://independentadvisorthayes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/bubble_1969.jpg" height="430" width="580" /></a></div><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Low LIBOR is Inflating</span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">the Biggest Financial Bubble</span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in History - When it Pops...</span></span></b></span></div><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>Forbes</i> article emphasizes the worst "scandal" of LIBOR, not what happened a couple years ago when the LIBOR rate was found to be controlled by a few banks - but about the effects of a low LIBOR rate (low interest rates) on the global economy .. what is LIBOR? - it stands for “London Interbank Offered Rate,” which is a benchmark interest rate that is derived from the rates that major banks charge each other for loans in the London interbank market - LIBOR is used as a reference rate for hundreds of trillion dollars worth of commercial &amp; consumer loans, derivatives, &amp; other financial products across the globe .. "The vastly worse LIBOR 'scandal' that I am referring to is the fact that the LIBOR has stayed at record low levels for the past half-decade [from financial repression], which is helping to fuel a massive economic bubble around the entire world that will end in a devastating financial crisis that will be even worse than the Global Financial Crisis. Instead of causing a few tens of billions of dollars worth of losses like the LIBOR rate-fixing scandal, the 'LIBOR Bubble' will gut the global economy by trillions of dollars."</b></span></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://blogs-images.forbes.com/jessecolombo/files/2014/06/libor1.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://blogs-images.forbes.com/jessecolombo/files/2014/06/libor1.gif" height="290" width="580" /></a></div><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Extended low LIBOR rates have been "helping to inflate the emerging markets bubble that I am warning about" .. sees 3 scenarios of the end-game .. concludes:&nbsp; </b></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>"The popping of the 'LIBOR Bubble' may not even require Libor rates to rise because the bubbles may endogenously collapse under their own weight after growing even larger in the next few years. Though the popping of the global bubble is likely several years away, the time to worry about this situation is now because the damage (the debt buildup and asset price inflation) is occurring at this very moment."</b></span></span></span><br /><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jessecolombo/2014/06/03/this-new-libor-scandal-will-cause-a-terrifying-financial-crisis/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>LINK HERE to the article </b></span></span></u></span></a>http://www.cliffkule.com/2015/03/low-libor-is-inflating-biggest.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cliff Küle)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066409829401008049.post-5430455194048023252Tue, 03 Mar 2015 21:58:00 +00002015-03-03T17:01:16.296-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">"F--king central banks are .. fallen angels</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">&nbsp;with the power to reverse gravity."</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-H7-VTAymY3w/VPIbUi6DnjI/AAAAAAABy-8/L2sFWS5GZFY/s1600/thad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-H7-VTAymY3w/VPIbUi6DnjI/AAAAAAABy-8/L2sFWS5GZFY/s1600/thad.jpg" height="320" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Thad Beversdorf is not afraid to say it</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>=================================</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>There Is A Negative Correlation Between</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The Economy &amp; The Stock Market?</b></span><br /><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>STOCKS GO UP WHEN THE</b></span><br /><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>ECONOMY GOES DOWN!</b></span></div><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>&nbsp;..Mind blowing. &nbsp;The market has, after 6 years of the most extreme monetary easing in the history of the world, traded to all time highs on an economy that is too weak to warrant even an indication that rates could move above 0%. &nbsp;There is no other way to see this. I’m sorry but there isn’t. &nbsp;Seriously have a look!</b></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.firstrebuttal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-24-at-11.49.18-AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Screen Shot 2015-02-24 at 11.49.18 AM" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1594" src="http://www.firstrebuttal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Screen-Shot-2015-02-24-at-11.49.18-AM.png" height="350" scale="0" width="580" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>That giant X constitutes as a pretty solid negative correlation between market valuations and American’s ability to support future cash flows. This is a very simple chart. The implication of this chart is incredibly important. &nbsp;Market participants have seen the detriment of the American working class as a financial market driver. That is, the less able American consumers are to drive future corporate cash flows the higher the market values grow. How could this ever be? Market valuations are fundamentally based on expected future cash flows!? Well, as I’ve discussed many times before, the Fed and only the Fed.</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #20124d;">The market is addicted to easy money. &nbsp;The Fed has done everything in its power to ensure the market is certain that the easy money train is to continue as far as&nbsp;market participants can see</span><span style="color: #990000;"> ...&nbsp;</span></b></span><br /><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Ending of QE3 caused a 10% market sell off in just a matter of weeks, until James Bullard came out on October 15th and stated that QE4 was cocked and ready should the market continue to sell off. The market&nbsp;then&nbsp;reversed (minutes after that comment) and shot higher.</b></span><br /><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Now basically what Bullard did was to say that if the market does anything but move higher the Fed&nbsp;will inject more money. &nbsp;And so it essentially tells all those who see the market as fundamentally overvalued you are shit out of luck, don’t fight the Fed. &nbsp;And with that, all fundamental traders either left the market or adjusted their paradigm. &nbsp;And I’m not suggesting the Fed is simply doing this to steal from the poor to give to the rich. &nbsp;Perhaps in the beginning there is a little truth to that, in that they felt this direction would both work and create excess wealth for those important folks at the top, of which they belong. &nbsp;But at this point, the reason the Fed is so inclined to an upward moving market boils down to the market being the only thing preventing the realization&nbsp;that would lead to all out collapse.</b></span><br /><a href="http://www.firstrebuttal.com/2015/02/24/proof-that-market-valuations-have-a-negative-correlation-to-expected-future-cash-flows-welcome-to-wonderland/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><u><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">LINK HERE</span></b></u></span></a>http://www.cliffkule.com/2015/03/f-king-central-banks-are.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cliff Küle)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066409829401008049.post-6081917379835197599Tue, 03 Mar 2015 21:56:00 +00002015-03-03T16:56:00.339-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Is Japan Zimbabwe?</b></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1j7POe_iXyk/VPWWzYINBII/AAAAAAABzAc/H1P3kP8Uv3o/s1600/2015-03-02-japan-zimbabwe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1j7POe_iXyk/VPWWzYINBII/AAAAAAABzAc/H1P3kP8Uv3o/s400/2015-03-02-japan-zimbabwe.jpg" height="630" width="580" /></a></div><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Axel Merk sees parallels between Japan &amp; Zimbabwe .. even though Japan is an advanced economy relative to Zimbabwe, it is taking a similar approach to tackling its massive debt .. the end game for Japan: "Because the Bank of Japan gobbles up dramatic amounts of debt, the cost of financing government spending stays low. It’s been said that a country that issues debt in its own currency cannot go broke. Theoretically that may be correct: the central bank can always monetize the debt, i.e. buy up any new debt being issued. But in practice, there has to be a valve. In my assessment, that valve is the currency. Hence my prediction is that the yen will reach 'infinity' versus the dollar (a ‘higher’ yen represents a weaker currency), i.e. be worthless at some point."</b></span></span></span><br /><a href="http://www.merkinvestments.com/insights/2015/2015-03-03.php?utm_source=merk&amp;utm_medium=link&amp;utm_campaign=merk-campaign" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>LINK HERE to the essay </b></span></span></u></span></a>http://www.cliffkule.com/2015/03/is-japan-zimbabwe-axel-merk-sees.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cliff Küle)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066409829401008049.post-5813651114590920084Tue, 03 Mar 2015 21:55:00 +00002015-03-03T16:55:00.066-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Financial Repression on</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Interest Rates is Destroying</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Business Models, Capitalism,</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>&nbsp;Pension/Insurance Funds</b></span></span></span></div><span style="color: #20124d;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Janus Capital's</i> Bill Gross* on the outlook for <i>Federal Reserve</i> policy, the U.S. economy &amp; his objectives at <i>Janus Capital</i> .. "The interest rate can't be raised substantially even over the next two to three years .. Low interest rates keeps zombie corporations alive because they can borrow at 3 and 4%, as opposed to the 8 or 9%. It destroys business models. It's destroying the pension industry and in the insurance industry .. Ultimately, low interest rates destroy the capitalistic model at the margin. Instead of investing in the real economy, corporations can now simply borrow at close to 0% and buy their own stocks, which yield 2 or 3% on a dividend basis and provide a return of 6 or 7% on an earnings to price ratio basis." .. <span style="color: #990000;">12 minutes</span></span></span></b></span><br /><script src="//cdn.gotraffic.net/projector/latest/bplayer.js">BPlayer(null, {"id":"lR8UTUj9SxCIMxYIIvoZdg","htmlChildId":"bbg-video-player-lR8UTUj9SxCIMxYIIvoZdg","serverUrl":"http://www.bloomberg.com/api/embed","idType":"BMMR","autoplay":false,"video_autoplay_on_page":false,"log_debug":false,"ui_controls_popout":false,"module_conviva_insights":"enabled","conviva_account":"c3.Bloomberg","wmode":"opaque","use_comscore":true,"comscore_ns_site":"bloomberg","comscore_page_level_tags":{"bb_brand":"bbiz","bss_cont_play":0},"use_chartbeat":true,"chartbeat_uid":"15087","chartbeat_domain":"bloomberg.com","use_share_overlay":true,"share_metadata":{"canonical_url":"http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-03-02/gross-says-fed-may-raise-rates-25-basis-points-in-june"},"vertical":"business","width":580,"height":360,"offsite_embed":true,"ad_tag":"","ad_tag_cust_params_preroll":""});</script>http://www.cliffkule.com/2015/03/financial-repression-on-interest-rates.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cliff Küle)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066409829401008049.post-497781491653539422Tue, 03 Mar 2015 21:53:00 +00002015-03-03T17:06:11.507-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>David Rosenberg*:&nbsp;</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Europe is the Market&nbsp;</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>to Watch Now</b></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tourism-review.com/temp/page_detail_zoom_3817.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.tourism-review.com/temp/page_detail_zoom_3817.jpg" height="290" width="580" /></a></div><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>David Rosenberg* commentary on the markets .. thinks the Canadian dollar has put in a bottom in synchrony with the fall in oil prices - same thing happened in 1985 &amp; 1986 .. may not get a big recovery in the Canadian dollar - sees it lingering in the 82-84cent (to the U.S.$) range .. on stocks: "As for equity markets, the bottom line is that when we have 90% of the world’s GDP anchored to zero or even negative interest rates and 90% of the world’s GDP anchored by 2% or lower bond yields, the stock market is still one of the few asset classes that can manage to generate a respectable return." ..&nbsp; on Europe: "European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has already done a superb job in ring fencing the rest of the euro area from a Greek exit, which I don’t expect will happen, but if it does, it looks like the fallout will be marginal.That in itself is encouraging and if we do end up with a successful resolution in Greece and if this Ukraine truce, as fragile as it seems, manages to hold, I would expect to see a meaningfully positive re-rating of euro area assets in general, especially when you consider that the swing back into recession last year in Germany was the direct result of the sanctions on Russia, which after all, is Germany’s fifth-largest trading partner."</b></span></span></span><br /><a href="http://business.financialpost.com/2015/03/02/europe-is-the-market-to-watch-now/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>LINK HERE to the commentary </b></span></span></u></span></a>http://www.cliffkule.com/2015/03/david-rosenberg-europe-is-market-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cliff Küle)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066409829401008049.post-8102998637963817959Tue, 03 Mar 2015 21:48:00 +00002015-03-03T17:03:41.048-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Oil Market Analysis</b></span></span></span></div><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>Boom Bu$t</i> .. discussion with Rob Barnett – energy policy analyst at <i>Bloomberg Intelligence</i> on his outlook for the oil sector .. explains how short-term gyrations can be severe - marginal costs are as low as $5-10 a barrel for some producers, in the 1980s &amp; 1990s oil traded at $20 a barrel for an extended period. There is plenty of downside. At the same time, reduced rig count has not translated into reduced production. Much pressure still remains on the price .. <span style="color: #990000;">1/2 hour total program</span></b></span></span></span><br /><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zdWRihLbfV0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>http://www.cliffkule.com/2015/03/oil-market-analysis-boom-but.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cliff Küle)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066409829401008049.post-7280841685117424167Tue, 03 Mar 2015 21:45:00 +00002015-03-03T16:45:00.433-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://media.cagle.com/56/2011/11/03/100388_600.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://media.cagle.com/56/2011/11/03/100388_600.jpg" height="350" width="580" />&nbsp;</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>click to enlarge </b></span></span></span></div>http://www.cliffkule.com/2015/03/blog-post_18.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cliff Küle)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066409829401008049.post-4277473722576334448Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:43:00 +00002015-03-03T13:28:51.382-05:00book privately owned banks that control the U.S. $ are in a position to covertly assist China to accumulate REAL RESERVES<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://openmarkets.cmegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/China-Gold.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://openmarkets.cmegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/China-Gold.png" height="320" width="580" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>China Is A Strategic Thinker</b></span></span></span></div><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>"If China has all paper and no gold, and we inflate the paper, they lose. But if they have a mix of paper and gold, and we inflate the paper, they’ll make it up on the gold. So they have to get to that hedged position .. The evidence is there. China is saying, in effect, 'We’re not comfortable holding all these dollars unless we can have gold. But if we are transparent about the gold acquisition, the price will go up too quickly. So we need the western powers to keep the lid on the price and help us get the gold, until we reach a hedged position. At that point, maybe we’ll still have a stable dollar.' .. The point is that is that there is so much instability in the system with derivatives and leverage that we’re not going to get from here to there. We’re not going to have a happy ending. The system’s going to collapse before we get from here to there. At that point, it’s going to be a mad scramble to get gold."</b></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>- Jim Rickards*</b></span></span></span><br /><a href="http://dailyreckoning.com/u-s-helping-china-accumulate-gold/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>LINK HERE to the commentary</b></span></span></u></span></a><br /><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;">[</span><span style="color: #990000;">NOTE:&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #20124d;">Jim Rickards is saying something very similar to what both Cliff Küle &amp; Tim Cruelworld have been saying. The privately owned banks that control the U.S. $ are in a position to covertly assist China to accumulate REAL RESERVES that cannot be magically created out of thin air (like the U.S.$s that China spent years accumulating). The private banks that control the U.S.$ have the opportunity &amp; they have the motive to help &amp; favor the Chinese government to accumulate gold. It wasn't so long ago that people commonly spoke of how China could ruin the U.S. by dumping its TRILLIONS of $ of U.S. Treasury Bonds. That was foolish talk because it would have hurt China too. America's ELITES (whoever it is that own enough of the few major Wall Street banks that determine Federal Reserve policy) are in a position AND have a profit motive to assist China accumulate 'tangible money' at the expense of America's NON ELITE 'common people'.] see previous post below</span></b><br /><span style="color: #990000;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.cliffkule.com/2015/03/timothy-geithner-reaches-out-to-chinas.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;">LINK HERE to our recent essay</span>&nbsp;</a></b></span></span></u></span>http://www.cliffkule.com/2015/03/chinas-thinking-on-gold-accumulation-if.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cliff Küle)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066409829401008049.post-7024646924846771386Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:42:00 +00002015-03-03T12:42:00.323-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Nasdaq 5000: </b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Bubble or not? </b></span></span></span></div><span style="color: #20124d;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Peter Schiff* &amp; others discuss the potential for a stock market bubble in the tech sector/NASDAQ .. <span style="color: #990000;">13 minutes</span></span></span></b></span><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/f7IMN0eTVT8" width="560"></iframe>http://www.cliffkule.com/2015/03/nasdaq-5000-bubble-or-not-peter-schiff.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cliff Küle)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066409829401008049.post-1512752485611619278Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:41:00 +00002015-03-03T12:41:00.253-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Peter Schiff* on</span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">World Economy &amp; Markets</span></span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://d1mtgrm4u7zs4h.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/CAPE%20Graph%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://d1mtgrm4u7zs4h.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/CAPE%20Graph%201.jpg" height="360" width="580" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Peter Schiff* sees a sort of herd mentality of investors chasing returns &amp; piling into positions that are already overvalued in their search for yield .. </b><b>"But herds can be spooked, most often by unexpected developments which can catch the herd wrong-footed and spark major movements when the masses scatter at the same time. When that occurs, those who resisted the herd may find themselves rewarded. We believe that we are approaching such a point." .. identifies some interesting areas for investment given this view .. </b><b>"Don't be fooled by the madness of the crowd. The U.S. is not the sole remaining engine of world growth as the talking heads would seem to have you believe .. </b><b>The good news is that unloved assets may be attractively priced. At a time when energy and labor costs are at multi-year lows, and gold priced in some non-dollar currencies is approaching all-time highs, there are overseas gold mining stocks trading at levels consistent with lower gold prices. The fall in oil has pushed many energy stocks down by 50% or more. In addition, currencies issued by fiscally solvent nations are at fresh multi-year lows."</b></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #20124d;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.europac.com/commentaries/herd_can_be_blind" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">LINK HERE to the commentary</span></span></u></span></a> </span></span></b></span><span style="color: #20124d;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></span></b></span>http://www.cliffkule.com/2015/03/peter-schiff-on-world-economy-markets.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cliff Küle)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066409829401008049.post-6092164210514307289Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:39:00 +00002015-03-03T12:39:00.347-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>OUTSIDE OUR BOX</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Wow! Houses &amp; Airplane</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Engines Being 3D-Printed</b></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.3ders.org/images2014/china-winsun-3d-printed-villa-six-floor-building-3d-printing-3ders-7.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.3ders.org/images2014/china-winsun-3d-printed-villa-six-floor-building-3d-printing-3ders-7.JPG" /></a></div><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>2 articles highlighting the great potential of 3-dimensional printing technology .. in China, 3D houses have been made. The buildings were created entirely out of concrete using a gigantic 3D printer, each costs only 30,000 RMB (U.S.$4,800) .. another article reports that Australian researchers have created the first 3D-printed jet turbine engine - the development is being hailed as a potential breakthrough in aircraft manufacturing.</b></span></span></span><br /><a href="http://www.3ders.org/articles/20150118-winsun-builds-world-first-3d-printed-villa-and-tallest-3d-printed-building-in-china.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>LINK HERE to the China article</b></span></span></u></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/26/australian-researchers-create-first-3d-printed-jet-engine" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>LINK HERE to the Australia article </b></span></span></u></span></a>http://www.cliffkule.com/2015/03/outside-our-box-wow-houses-airplane.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cliff Küle)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066409829401008049.post-3225601249095865148Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:37:00 +00002015-03-03T12:37:00.333-05:00<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>How Millennials will</b></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Change the Economy</b></span></span></span><a href="http://www.goldmansachs.com/our-thinking/outlook/millennials/index.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="http://www.goldmansachs.com/our-thinking/outlook/millennials/index.html" border="0" src="http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/millenials.pmg_-e1425257065182.png" height="350" width="580" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Courtesy of <i>Goldman Sachs</i></b></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>click on the image to launch the interactive </b></span></span></span></div>http://www.cliffkule.com/2015/03/httpwwwgoldmansachscomour.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cliff Küle)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066409829401008049.post-1549700721591588763Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:33:00 +00002015-03-03T12:33:00.641-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Peak Prosperity News Update</span></span> </b></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i style="color: #20124d;">Peak Prosperity's</i><span style="color: #20124d;"> Chris Martenson* is a couple days late on his weekly news update .. discusses taking an approach to understanding the world economy by determining what is happening to global capital flows between countries &amp; regions .. sees the recent Russian opposition leader's assassination as further distancing the west from the east - asks "who benefits" from this event? [</span><span style="color: #990000;">Cliff Küle kudos to&nbsp;</span></b></span></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">Chris Martenson*.</span></b><b style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> This is the question that we want everyone to ask about everything. Cui bono? is written on the top right of our site. That is a Latin expression for 'Who benefits'? 'IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND THE TRUTH, DON"T PICK SIDES'. We keep repeating this as a theme point. In this one particular case, those who want to embarrass Putin actually benefit more than Putin. That doesn't mean that it wasn't Putin. It means there are more suspects than the one who is blamed by everyone who isn't thinking]</b><b style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.. <span style="color: #990000;">9 minutes</span></b><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/31nIUg7jAdU" width="560"></iframe>http://www.cliffkule.com/2015/03/peak-prosperity-news-update-peak.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cliff Küle)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066409829401008049.post-3806281121947059908Tue, 03 Mar 2015 17:30:00 +00002015-03-03T12:30:01.173-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.toonpool.com/user/1631/files/threatened_economy_1009225.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://www.toonpool.com/user/1631/files/threatened_economy_1009225.jpg" height="390" width="580" />&nbsp;</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>click to enlarge </b></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nYsGCFtMIkc/VPXNCJnLcEI/AAAAAAABzAs/FBoM5nJ2ijQ/s1600/imagesPZVPWKLO.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nYsGCFtMIkc/VPXNCJnLcEI/AAAAAAABzAs/FBoM5nJ2ijQ/s1600/imagesPZVPWKLO.jpg" height="500" width="463" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div>http://www.cliffkule.com/2015/03/blog-post_80.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cliff Küle)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066409829401008049.post-8368975952974015416Tue, 03 Mar 2015 10:59:00 +00002015-03-03T05:59:00.480-05:00book [Could it be that it was never really about fixing the economyit was about fixing the banks?]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-P8RdFb_n3DA/UIfDD7hi6sI/AAAAAAAAxVQ/IaHPGuke5Ik/s400/highway11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-P8RdFb_n3DA/UIfDD7hi6sI/AAAAAAAAxVQ/IaHPGuke5Ik/s400/highway11.jpg" height="390" width="580" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Bill Gross*&nbsp;</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>"Central Banks Have Gone&nbsp;</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Too Far In Their Misguided Efforts&nbsp;</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>To Support Economic Growth"</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>[Could it be that it was never really about fixing the economy, it was about fixing the banks?]</b></span></span></span></div><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>In his monthly investment outlook, Bill Gross* sees the world caught in a race to the bottom on interest rates - sees it as a worldwide currency war - "Close to the same thing happened in the 1930s, a period remarkably similar to what many countries’ policies resemble today." .. sees no winner in this war .. Gross is very concerned .. these very low interest rates are destroying business models that are critical to the functioning of the economies of the world .. "Pension funds and insurance companies are perhaps the most important examples of financial sectors that are threatened by low to negative interest rates .. Investors who have cheered every instance of lower and now sub-zero yields in developed countries because of near-term capital gains that accompany them, must now beware of the potential consequences. Central banks have gone and continue to go too far in their misguided efforts ... 'Home bred' monetary policies earn 'blue ribbon' rewards in the short term, but in the long run may undermine the entire show ... Stay conservative in your investment portfolio. Own high quality bonds and low P/E, high quality stocks if you want to stay out of the doghouse." [Gee Bill, How do you really feel?]</b></span></span></span><br /><a href="https://www.janus.com/bill-gross-investment-outlook" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>LINK HERE to the essay </b></span></span></u></span></a>http://www.cliffkule.com/2015/03/bill-gross-central-banks-have-gone-too.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cliff Küle)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066409829401008049.post-4254480128032978728Tue, 03 Mar 2015 10:58:00 +00002015-03-03T05:58:00.498-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Are Central Banks&nbsp;</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Creating Deflation?</span></span></b></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fb5sugKg240/VPUukvFPaQI/AAAAAAABzAI/VKUDuf2EAm4/s1600/defl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fb5sugKg240/VPUukvFPaQI/AAAAAAABzAI/VKUDuf2EAm4/s1600/defl.jpg" height="263" width="580" /></a></div><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>Citi's</i> Matt King points out he did not see any linkage of investment to central bank monetary stimulus .. "If the first $5tn of global quantitaive easing (QE), which saw corporate bond yields in both $ and € fall to all-time lows, didn’t prompt a wave of investment, what do we think a sixth trillion is going to do?" .. he quotes one client which helps to understand what is happening: "By lowering the cost of borrowing, QE has lowered the risk of default. This has led to overcapacity (see highly leveraged shale companies). Overcapacity leads to deflation." .. this all suggests that with QE, central banks are manufacturing what they are trying to defeat .. "QE, and stimulus generally, is supposed to create new demand, improving capacity utilization, not reducing it. But ... it feels ever more as though central bank easing is just shifting demand from one place to another, not augmenting it .. By definition, races to the bottom are not very positive affairs. And as the sell-off in commodities shows, at some point they can lead to casualties. But the lower yields go, the longer even previously unsustainable debt burdens can be sustained – just look at Japan. Competitive easing may do little to improve long-term growth prospects, but it should make the hunt for yield more powerful still. Even if QE does prove deflationary, until we start running into actual defaults, it is hard to see what stops this."</b></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-01/are-central-banks-creating-deflation" target="_blank"><u><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">link here to</span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"> th</span>e reference </span></b></u></a></span></span></span>http://www.cliffkule.com/2015/03/are-central-banks-creating-deflation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cliff Küle)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066409829401008049.post-1833853200710892764Tue, 03 Mar 2015 10:56:00 +00002015-03-03T05:56:00.184-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>What Top Hedge Fund Managers&nbsp;</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Really Think About Gold</b></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://financesonline.com/uploads/2013/12/gold2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://financesonline.com/uploads/2013/12/gold2.jpg" height="380" width="580" /></a></div><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Selections from the January issue of <i>BIG GOLD</i> - Fund managers are worth listening to: Jim Rickards*, Chris Martenson, Steve Henningsen, Grant Williams*, Brent Johnson.</b></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #990000;"><i>Jim Rickards:</i></span> "Since risks are balanced between deflation and inflation in the short run, a sound portfolio should be prepared for both. Investors should have gold, silver, land, fine art, and other hard assets as an inflation hedge. They should have cash and US Treasury 10-year notes as a deflation hedge. They should also include some carefully selected alternatives, including global macro hedge funds and venture capital investments for alpha. Investors should avoid emerging markets, junk bonds, and tech stocks."</b></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #990000;"><i>Grant Williams:</i></span> "Right now I think there are two essentials in any portfolio: cash and gold. The risk/reward skew of being in equity markets in most places around the world is just not attractive at these levels. With such anemic growth everywhere we turn, and while it looks for all the world that bond yields are set to continue falling, I think the chances of equities continuing their stellar run are remote enough to make me want out of equity markets altogether .. Unlevered physical gold has no counterparty risk and has sustained a bid for 6,000 straight years (and counting). Though sometimes, in the wee small hours, those bids can be both a little sparse and yet strangely attractive to certain sellers of size .. Meanwhile, a healthy allocation to cash offers a supply of dry powder that can be used to gain entry points which will hugely amplify both the chances of outperformance and the level of that performance in the coming years."</b></span></span></span><br /><a href="http://www.caseyresearch.com/articles/what-top-hedge-fund-managers-really-think-about-gold" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>LINK HERE to the article</b></span></span></u></span></a>http://www.cliffkule.com/2015/03/what-top-hedge-fund-managers-really.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cliff Küle)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066409829401008049.post-4675163849010968491Tue, 03 Mar 2015 10:50:00 +00002015-03-03T05:50:00.425-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Joe Saluzzi on</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;">High Frequency Trading Risks </span></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://assets2.motherboard.tv/content-images/contentimage/no-slug/095a45af2d9ada9bf6c87aa8b1436ca8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://assets2.motherboard.tv/content-images/contentimage/no-slug/095a45af2d9ada9bf6c87aa8b1436ca8.jpg" height="350" width="580" /></a></div><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Joe Saluzzi of<i> Themis Trading </i>on how regulatory changes &amp; a shift in exchange ownership from nonprofit to for-profit status led to a major shift in market structures. These changes have led to all manner of problems, not the least of which was the May 6, 2010, Flash Crash. Since then, we have seen mini crashes in individual stocks &amp;, more recently, Treasuries &amp; currencies .. <span style="color: #990000;">1 hour</span></b></span></span></span><br /><a href="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/193811740/download?client_id=0f8fdbbaa21a9bd18210986a7dc2d72c" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>LINK HERE or listen below</b></span></span></u></span></a><br /><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/193811740&amp;color=ff5500" width="100%"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />http://www.cliffkule.com/2015/03/joe-saluzzi-on-high-frequency-trading.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cliff Küle)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066409829401008049.post-3283899977539923343Tue, 03 Mar 2015 10:48:00 +00002015-03-03T05:48:00.783-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Fear the Strength of </b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>the U.S. Dollar </b></span></span></span></div><span style="color: #20124d;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Christine Hughes, President &amp; Chief Investment Strategist of <i>OtterWood Capital</i>, explains why the strength of the U.S.$ is something to worry about .. <span style="color: #990000;">12 minutes</span></span></span></b></span><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6LKgVSR3M5I" width="560"></iframe>http://www.cliffkule.com/2015/03/fear-strength-of-u.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cliff Küle)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066409829401008049.post-3738033646091639074Tue, 03 Mar 2015 10:45:00 +00002015-03-03T05:45:00.104-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://crazifornia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Pension-whale.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blamk"><img border="0" src="http://crazifornia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Pension-whale.jpg" height="380" width="580" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>click to enlarge</b></span></span></span></div><br />http://www.cliffkule.com/2015/03/blog-post_3.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cliff Küle)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066409829401008049.post-7747955680981081724Tue, 03 Mar 2015 10:43:00 +00002015-03-03T05:43:00.353-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Jeff Christian - "Expectation is</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>that Gold has made its low"</b></span></span></span></div><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>CPM Group's</i> Jeff Christian sees sloppy banking &amp; sloppy regulators in the gold/commodity markets .. on gold prices: "Our expectation is that the price has made its low, it may go down and test $1,180 [or] $1,170 a few more times in the next several months .. and then it'll start moving higher." .. <span style="color: #990000;">7 minutes</span></b></span></span></span><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AFGI5h2_NQ4" width="560"></iframe>http://www.cliffkule.com/2015/03/jeff-christian-expectation-is-that-gold.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cliff Küle)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066409829401008049.post-5952875260367459246Mon, 02 Mar 2015 21:59:00 +00002015-03-02T17:38:13.199-05:00book 5* Everyone wants to believe that we are bettersmarter & more progressive than people of the past.<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DuvvIwOFM7A/VPTijlGfAxI/AAAAAAABy_4/TlPl5Pp6-LA/s1600/progress-trap.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DuvvIwOFM7A/VPTijlGfAxI/AAAAAAABy_4/TlPl5Pp6-LA/s1600/progress-trap.jpg" height="422" width="570" /></a></div><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Debasement</b></span></span></span><b style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">&nbsp;of Mone</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">y</span></span></b><br /><b style="color: #20124d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Is Not Progress</span></span></b></div><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>"I think it’s become apparent and it’s becoming more apparent to more people almost by the day that this system doesn’t work anymore. And it doesn’t work anymore because of the level of debt that’s been loaded up over the last 40 odd years since the end of the gold standard. And it’s interesting because humans are a very progressive species and we look at the advancements that we’ve made in technology.</b></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>We look at the motorcar and the airplane and the computer and all these things that have progressed mankind forward. And so the people assume that that translates to every facet of human existence.</b></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #990000;"><i>But unfortunately human nature is not necessarily progressive, it’s cyclical.</i></span></b></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #990000;"></span><span style="color: #20124d;">And so we see these turns where we see monetary debasement as far as back as the Romans. Since the dawn of money there's been monetary debasement. Back then it was all physical. It didn’t have computer generated money; they would clip silver out of the coins. So monetary debasement, extended credit, over extension, rises and falls of empires—these things happen much more regularly than people believe .. You look at hard money standards; in the last 200 years the world has been on and off some kind of metallic standard and has in fact been on some kind of hard money standard more than it’s been off in the last 200 years. It just so happens that we have all coincided with the period in the last 40 years where it’s been off. So it seems almost impossible for people to grasp the idea that we could go back that way, but humans are cyclical in nature. And again, we are getting to that point where what’s happened, what’s been allowed to build up is unsustainable and historically when we've reached those points, you tend to have rather violent outcomes as widespread changes are forced onto a system that no longer works. And when I say violent I mean volatile."</span></b></span></span><br /><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">- Grant Williams*</span></b></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">[Once again, Grant Williams makes one of our 5* theme points: </span><span style="color: #20124d;">Everyone wants to believe that we are better, smarter &amp; more progressive than people of the past. The founding fathers of the United States understood the importance of keeping the dollar honest. 'Tricky Dick' Nixon removed the one remaining restraint to keep the dollar honest. That wasn't progress. It was a move backward.</span><span style="color: #990000;">]</span></b></span><br /><a href="http://www.cliffkule.com/2015/03/why-smart-money-is-so-nervous-now.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>LINK HERE to our weekend post</b></span></span></u></span></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://armstrongeconomics.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/anglo-saxon-debasement-7th-century.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://armstrongeconomics.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/anglo-saxon-debasement-7th-century.jpg" height="390" width="580" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>http://www.cliffkule.com/2015/03/monetary-debasement-on-fiat-mone-y-i.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cliff Küle)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066409829401008049.post-3610185729651249048Mon, 02 Mar 2015 21:58:00 +00002015-03-02T16:58:00.392-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>The Next Empire</b></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://d24g2nq85gnwal.cloudfront.net/images/authors/brics.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="290" src="https://d24g2nq85gnwal.cloudfront.net/images/authors/brics.jpg" width="580" /></a></div><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>International Man's</i> Jeff Thomas sees an emerging superpower emerging in the world - a collection of fast-growing economies in Latin America, Asia, Africa &amp; Asia, predominantly led by Russia &amp; China .. Thomas describes recent developments in the world's payment systems, currency reserves, &amp; development banks all pointing to a this big change .. these developments collecting are creating a complete second economic world to which the U.S. is not part of .. "In the latter days of the British Empire, we Brits seemed to be under the illusion that, even as our power base crumbled, we might somehow retain control by threats and bluster. The UK was utterly wrong in this and only succeeded in alienating trading partners, colonies, and allies by doing so. The same is happening again today. China, Russia, and the rest of the world, when faced with American threats and bluster, will not simply fold their tents and accept that the U.S. must be obeyed. They will, instead, create alternatives. And they are doing so exceedingly well and quickly. At this point, the overreach of the US is not only enabling other powers to rise, it is forcing their hand to literally create the next full-blown empire."</b></span></span></span><br /><a href="http://www.internationalman.com/articles/the-next-empire" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>LINK HERE to the essay</b></span></span></u></span></a>http://www.cliffkule.com/2015/03/the-next-empire-international-mans-jeff.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cliff Küle)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066409829401008049.post-8984273244246540937Mon, 02 Mar 2015 21:57:00 +00002015-03-02T16:57:00.087-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>El-Erian*:&nbsp;</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Value Liquidity in 2015</span></span></span></span></b></span></div><span style="color: #20124d;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Mohammed El Erian*, chief economic advisor at <i>Allianz</i> says investors should value liquidity in 2015.</span></span></b></span><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="true" bgcolor="#131313" height="298" src="http://player.theplatform.com/p/gZWlPC/cnbc_global?playertype=synd&amp;byGuid=3000358331&amp;size=530_298" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="530"></iframe><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Greek Politics&nbsp;</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Becoming Complicated</b></span></span></span></div><span style="color: #20124d;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mohammed El Erian* says politics in Greece is becoming far more complicated. He also discussed the European Central Bank (ECB)'s quantitative easing (QE) program.</span></span></b></span><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="true" bgcolor="#131313" height="298" src="http://player.theplatform.com/p/gZWlPC/cnbc_global?playertype=synd&amp;byGuid=3000358330&amp;size=530_298" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="530"></iframe><br />http://www.cliffkule.com/2015/03/el-erian-value-liquidity-in-2015.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cliff Küle)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3066409829401008049.post-4486810793397668738Mon, 02 Mar 2015 21:55:00 +00002015-03-02T16:55:01.057-05:00<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>China Plans Yuan-denominated&nbsp;</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Gold Fix this year</span></span> </b></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://thecrux.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Chinese-Gold-Coins.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://thecrux.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Chinese-Gold-Coins.png" height="480" width="580" /></a></div><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>CNBC </i>posted article on reports that China plans to launch a gold fix in its own currency this year .. "The Chinese benchmark would be derived from a new 1 kg contract to be launched on the state-run Shanghai Gold Exchange .. The contract for the Chinese fix would be traded for a few minutes each day to make the process transparent - addressing one of the big complaints about the London fix." .. <span style="color: #990000;">[Cliff Note:</span> Another step closer towards a Chinese-based gold-backed currency<span style="color: #990000;">?]</span></b></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><i><b>Jim Rickards*: "China links yuan to gold after buying a mountain of gold .. I warned the Pentagon in 2009 .. Let's say you had a lot of gold. And let's say you print yuan. Next you link yuan to gold. Now, who wants dollars?"</b></i></span></span></span><br /><a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/102461888" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><u><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>LINK HERE to the article</b></span></span></u></span></a>http://www.cliffkule.com/2015/03/china-plans-yuan-denominated-gold-fix.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Cliff Küle)0